Michael E ChalbergMichael E. Chalberg is pastor and cofounder of Shepherds Care Ministries based in California. He offers 3 primary areas of ministry; 1. Pastoral Counseling and Mentoring over the Internet and privately; 2. Christian Renewal as an Intentional-Interim astor and Consultant; and 3. building Community Outreaches in and out of the church. He has worked an interim minister for 38 years of 44 offering renewal and healing to troubled communities of faith; using conflict resolution, leadership training. restoration of Biblical Disciplines, instruction in spiritual warfare and deliverance ministry, and establishing prayer teams as the foundation for all ministries to the broken-hearted of the world. He began the free counseling ministry in 1989 to include an Internet based chatroom reaching an international audience in need of counseling for ritual abuse and trauma. Here both survivors of abuse and their caregivers can come together for the soul purpose of learning about God's methods of healing amid spiritual warfare, alongside of the SCM staff and fellow survivors on their healing journeys. He provides a 'virtual' church office atmosphere for topics discussed including personal histories and experiences in the healing process, spiritual warfare, deliverance ministry and the development of spiritual gifts for survival. Private counseling is given as well via emails, chat rooms, phone and video conferencing. He moved his ministries to Arizona in 2010 to create Starbright Foundation Inc. with partners in ministry to focus on children/minors caught up in human sex trafficking, by providing free support for rescues, protection, counseling and education to heal the traumas they have endured. SFI expanded to include training of law enforcement, first responders, school systems, childcare workers, foster parents, churches, families and social groups ... anyone who will listen about how to get involved in intervention and prevention of this criminal industry. He and his wife, Carol (SCM cofounder), are graduates of Fuller Theological Seminary. He has a Master of Divinity in Pastoral Care and Counseling and Carol has a Master of Arts in Theology. Read More Read Less